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Retro Macintosh games Return to Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle arrive on Steam in March

By Liam Dawe,
Return to Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle are classic Macintosh games from the 80s, and they're getting a bundled definitive edition re-release on Steam.

Wireless VR streaming levels up on Linux with the latest WiVRn release

By Liam Dawe,
Have a VR headset and want to do some gaming from your Linux PC? WiVRn has a new release out that should make the experience even better.
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Valve fix up rumble related controller latency in the latest Steam Beta

By Liam Dawe,
A small but useful Steam Beta update has arrived and it's an especially good one for controller players that have rumble enabled.

Clever auto-battling racer Backseat Champions has a demo out now

By Liam Dawe,
Taking some of the fun elements of survivor-likes and putting them into a tactical F1 game, Backseat Champions has a really fun idea with a demo out now.

Prefixer is a modern alternative to Protontricks that's faster and simpler

By Liam Dawe,
Protontricks is a useful tool for Linux gaming, but it's a bit on the slow and complicated side that Prefixer aims to solve.

Discord attempt to put out the fires with a clarification over new age verification

By Liam Dawe,
Discord have released some clarifications around the new forced age verification system coming worldwide next month, as people look to flee the platform.

Physics building game Besiege heads into space with The Broken Beyond expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Besiege is going to the final frontier with the newly announced The Broken Beyond expansion.

Motorsport Manager revived with a break from SEGA

By Liam Dawe,
Playsport Games announced they've got the rights to Motorsport Manager back from SEGA, and they're already working on updates to the game.

Mewgenics is weird, completely chaotic and it's out now

By Liam Dawe,
Mewgenics from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel is officially out now, and it will absolutely annihilate your free time.

The Khronos Group celebrate 25 years of open standards

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group have released a series of videos today to celebrate 25 years of open standards like OpenGL, Vulkan and more.

GE-Proton 10-30 released with fixes for Arknights Endfield and the EA app

By Liam Dawe,
There's a fresh February 2026 release of the popular community-maintained compatibility layer, with GE-Proton 10-30 available now.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 50: Dawn of Civilization

By Hamish,
Civilization: Call to Power is a curious cultural artifact in a number of ways.

Discord is about to require age verification for everyone

By Liam Dawe,
Discord have announced that beginning in March, they're starting a global rollout of forced age verification to access all features of the platform.

KDE Linux gets performance improvements, new default apps and goes all-in on Flatpak

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE developers are working towards the first Beta release of KDE Linux, their own home-grown immutable operating system.

Linux kernel 6.19 arrives and the next will be 7.0

By Liam Dawe,
Linus Torvalds announced Linux kernel 6.19 is officially out now and then next is planned to be the big 7.0 release.

Mesa 25.3.5 arrives with bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Over the weekend we saw the release of Mesa 25.3.5, as we near the end of updates to Mesa 25.3 with developers moving onto the upcoming Mesa 26.

Vulkan-based translation layer D7VK officially expands to include Direct3D 5 support

By Liam Dawe,
The Vulkan-based translation layer D7VK has version 1.3 out now, which officially expands it to also cover Direct3D 5 support for running more games on Linux.

Steam game People Playground hit by malware via the Steam Workshop

By Liam Dawe,
Oh dear. People Playground from mestiez / Studio Minus recently had a major problem with malware pretending to be a mod in the Steam Workshop.

Steam Early Access games can now have a planned release date listed

By Liam Dawe,
Answering calls from developers, Valve have tweaked Early Access game pages to allow developers to add a full release date.

Wine 11.2 released with optimizations in PDB loading, support for MSVC constructors

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 11.2 is the latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer towards Wine 12 early next year.